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Since dropping out of college in 1995, I've had a hand in creating several companies. Some were successful, some not so much. They include IGN (IPO, acquisition), MyBlogLog (acquisition), Gnip (acquisition) and OneTrueFan (acquisition).

A shout out to Buckaroo Banzai

Man, 1984. Perhaps the golden era of cinema. Check out the top 10 movies of that year:

Ghostbusters

Beverly Hills Cop

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Gremlins

Karate Kid

Police Academy

Footloose

Romancing the Stone

Star Tek III: The Search for Spock

Splash

That may well have been peak comedy, with so many sub-genres well represented (family, adult, horror, slapstick and romance [weighing in at 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8/10 respectively]). but despite all those excellent choices, my favorite movie of 1984 was, by far, the absurdist masterpiece The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, an “action-packed science-fiction adventure-comedy” about a physicist / neurosurgeon / rock-and-roller who battles communist aliens from Planet 10. Here’s the movie’s original trailer, a disjointed mess that doesn’t do any favors for the movie.